Laura Poitras Movies

A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break...

For the past 20 years, ex-Army Ranger and “killology” expert Dave Grossman has been traveling across the US to train police officers on...

When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that many of those grenades were manufactured by the...

Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive...

In Japan, earthquake preparedness is a way of life — and a full- blown industry.

Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple....

Ongoing investigation by Laura Poitras and Sean Vegezzi

The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee, Adnan Latif.

New York cab and black car drivers are facing economic and emotional hardship in a city dominated by ride-share apps. As these long standing...

The director follows a Sunni Arab doctor as he prepares to run for the early 2005 elections in Iraq.

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...

For the past six decades, Seymour Hersh has been at the front lines of political journalism in the U.S. This arresting documentary, released at a...

In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera...

A series of racist acts prompts three Mizzou students to pick up cameras and take us inside the student movement that brought down their college...

A visual study of the investigation by Forensic Architecture into the Israeli cyberweapons manufacturer NSO Group and the use of its Pegasus malware...

What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?

Since the election of Donald Trump, there has been a continual flow of high level visitors to the penthouse apartment in Trump Tower. Their arrivals...

A short film following the release of journalist and activist Barrett Brown from prison, and his drive across Texas to a halfway house. 'Relatively...

Meet two women fighting against race-based gerrymandering in North Carolina: Val Applewhite, a plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case, and Moon...

In our current world, where worth is often gauged by online popularity, an economy has developed for paying for followers and likes. Through access...